Author: Ted Maclin

No CSA? No hog shares? Are we even still here? Yep. We are here and working on improvements around the farm. A CSA is a labor of love as much as one of economy, and while we still love the farm we both work off the farm to make ends…

It is raining. Again. We’re not ones to complain–if it was a dry spring we’d be wishing for rain. We had enough of a dry spell mid-week to plant okra, corn, and purple-hulled peas, though they may not produce until late summer. This week: Cabbage for All! This is exciting…

There is a lot of love in this week’s box. It isn’t just that we love veggies, or that kale is showing us a lot of love this year. It’s the beets. We love beets. A few years ago we had the Year of the Beet, in which all of…

Welcome to the 4th week of the spring CSA! State of the Garden Every year is different. This year we have plenty of kale and cabbage (the cabbage is just starting to come in) but some of our old friends have suffered from too much rain at exactly the wrong…

We love spring! Part of the joy is the growth of the season–but part is the surprise factor. Every year is a little different based on weather, shifts in weed and pest populations, stray deer, and other wildcards. Three years ago, for example, we refer to as “the year of…

This year we are trying out several new additions to the Spring CSA, including this delicious kale variety. Lacinato Kale is also known as black kale, Tuscan kale, cavolo nero, or dinosaur kale. It was one of the plants grown for Thomas Jefferson in the vegetable gardens at Monticello, making…

Our Spring 2016 CSA is right around the corner! We will start in mid- to late-April, depending on the weather, with salad greens, kale, turnips, spinach, onions, garlic, and more. This year we are adding several new varieties to the CSA, including Lacinato Kale (also known as black kale or Tuscan kale).…

Spring is in full effect now that we are (knock on wood!) out of the cycle of endless rain. This week’s box resembles the first two, but with some new additions; read on! Red Russian Kale and Giant Green Kale: OK; more kale. We were skeptics at first, years ago, but…

Welcome to the Spring 2015 CSA! Here is what we have in the box this week: Green leaf lettuce (in the bucket) Green onions Green garlic: One of our favorite tastes of spring. Use it like you would green onions; it is not so pungent as mature garlic. You…